Geo-Marine Letters24 (2004), pp. 182-193, doi:10.1007/s00367-004-0169-y

Seismic reflection data document for the first time the existence of a BSR in a limited area west of the Dnieper Canyon in the northwestern Black Sea. Seismic wide-angle data suggest that gas hydrates occupy in average 15 +/- 2 % of the pore space in a zone of 100 m in thickness. A conservative quantification of the amount of methane associated with this gas hydrate occurrence is about 12 +/- 3 10**11 m** 3 (0.6 +/- 0.2 Gt of methane carbon). Conductive heat flow deduced from the BSR depth is in the range of 21 +/- 6 to 55 +/- 15 mW/ m**2.